Aren't affinities between people of different complexion simply WONDERFUL!
It makes me wonder if the Eugenists can be right after all!
Fothergil Finch says that's where the Eugenists fall down. . . . He says they don't take account of Affinities at all.
Sometimes one finds it very puzzling — doesn't one? — the way these modern causes and movements seem to contradict one another!
But if one is in tune with the Cosmic All these little inconsistencies don't matter.
The Cosmic All! . . . WHAT would we do without it?
How do you suppose people ever got along a generation or two ago before the Cosmos and all that sort of thing was discovered?
I've often thought about it . . . and of what life must have been like in those days! As Emerson . . . or WAS it Emerson? . . . says in one of his poems: "Better a year of Europe than a cycle of Cathay!"
That's what Fothy Finch says he always feels about Brooklyn . . . though I WILL say this for Brooklyn — the first girl I saw with courage enough to wear one of those ankle watches on the street lived in Brooklyn.
But don't you think Brooklyn people are rather LIKE that . . . go to the latest things in dress, you know, in an EXTREME sort of way, so that people won't suspect they live in Brooklyn?